The main goal of the poster is to add further evidence to show that Jackendoff’s notion of syntactocentrism is antiquated. In particular, comparing old-fashioned analyses with recent minimalist accounts of German left peripheral focus (Fanselow and Lenertová, 2008) reveals that current MGG allows for direct phonology-semantics interaction and thus for excluding certain semantic properties from syntax. Such attempts to constrain syntax to combinatorial aspects due to recursive operations help to make claims of MGG more explicit, thus allowing for straightforward testing and falsification of linguistic hypotheses within the general program of experimental cognitive neuroscience, as recent studies have shown (Friederici et al., 2006), Accordingly, the original conception of MGG rooted in cognitive science is strengthened and recent claims that MGG needs radical surgery to participate in cognitive neuroscience seem quite unmotivated.